v. & n.
v.intr. (flitted, flitting) 1 move lightly, softly, or rapidly (flitted from one room to another). 2 fly lightly; make short flights (flitted from branch to branch). 3 Brit. colloq. leave one's house etc. secretly to escape creditors or obligations. 4 esp. Sc. & N.Engl. change one's home; move.
n. 1 an act of flitting. 2 (also moonlight flit) a secret change of abode in order to escape creditors etc. flitter n.
[ ME f. ON flytja: rel. to FLEET(5) ]